In 2014 semiconductor industry is good in the winter, the plants have raised capital expenditures, three semiconductor giant TSMC, Samsung Electronics (Samsung Electronics), Intel (Intel) capital expenditures to maintain high, Global Foundries, SK Hynix , SMIC, Toshiba (Toshiba), Inotera, Winbond, also have raised capital expenditures, foundries full capacity, DRAM and NAND Flash industry supply and demand in the coming year is healthy, chip prices go Yang. Foundries 2013 capital expenditure that is clearly rising, 2014 saw the advanced process of the war more and more intense, 28-nanometer production capacity is tight, 20-nanometer process to join the battlefield, 16/14 nanometer process card-bit war broke out, the major semiconductor plant capital war spending is not soft. TSMC's capital spending of 2014 is nearly ten billion yuan, close to this level in 2015, will be the third consecutive year capital expenditures generous, recently in both the 28-nanometer generation HKMG process are ploy SiON or victory, grabbed a single large customer makes capacity is extremely tight, the park Fab14 factory sixth, seven will start adding operations, 20-nanometer process began for apple production A8 processor chip, the industry is expected to end 20-nanometer process, TSMC will expand production to 60,000 down. Korean semiconductor giant Samsung, Hynix were reported before the expansion DRAM chips, Samsung is Apple's processor chips TSMC snatched order, empty out the logic capacity filled up, also considered to be transferred to the production of DRAM chips, a few days ago has decided to produce original mobile processor chip Chinese city Line17 production line S3, the first phase will be transferred to the production of DRAM chips, is expected to begin production in 2015, is bound to further expansion capital expenditures. Global Foundries continue to invest in New York State factories, as well as the Singapore plant upgrade to 12-inch fab, 2014 capital spending $ 4.5 billion over the previous year increased to $ 5.5 billion. Global Foundries and Samsung Electronics for the 14 nm Fin FET process collaboration, in 2015 there will be one step closer to the benefits. In addition, SMIC has expanded capital expenditures in 2014, from $ 651 million in 2013, increased to $ 880 million. According to market research agency IC Insights statistics, the world's top ten semiconductor plant in 2014 capital spending over 50 billion U.S. dollars, grew 10% over the previous year, the cumulative 2012 to 2014 capital expenditures of 1,411 billion dollars.